Winter Paralympics: Great Britain remain in curling semi-finals fight

Great Britain remain in the hunt for a wheelchair curling semi-final spot on the Winter Paralympics after beating Estonia 10-5.

GB face Sweden subsequent at 11.35 GMT.

In the biathlon center distance, Britain’s Scott Meenagh completed ninth and Callum Deboys was 18th.

Dawson-Farrell mentioned of the curling win: “Coming into the day with a win brings you again up once more and makes you wish to actually fight for it.”

GB have gained three of their 5 round-robin matches with one other 5 to play.

‘I’m the Tom Daley of Paralympics’

Following Olympic champion Tom Daley’s knitting example on the Tokyo summer time Games, Dawson-Farrell has been crocheting a blanket for her grandfather to remain busy between matches.

“My aunt taught me to crochet throughout lockdown and I’m in the method of creating a blanket whereas I’m right here – I’m the Tom Daley of the Paralympic world,” she instructed Paralympics GB.

“I like to only sit and block out the world and provides it a go.”

‘The most troublesome Paralympics’ – Ukraine succeeds in adversity

Despite athletes scuffling with information from residence, Ukraine are second in the medal desk – with six golds to China’s eight – after claiming two clear sweeps of the rostrum in the biathlon.

Iryna Bui took gold in the ladies’s center distance standing biathlon, with Oleksandra Kononova successful silver and Liudmyla Liashenko bronze.

Liashenko had pulled out of her cross-country race after her residence in Kharkiv was destroyed on Monday as the town suffered heavy bombing.

Compatriot Anastasiia Laletina, 19, didn’t go forward along with her biathlon center distance sitting race on Tuesday after discovering that her father – a soldier in the Ukrainian military – had been taken prisoner by Russian forces.

Team spokeswoman Nataliia Harach mentioned: “She was very upset and could not participate in the race.”

After successful silver, Kononova mentioned: “All my ideas, my coronary heart and my soul is with my household and with my baby.

“Emotionally it’s totally troublesome to focus and to focus on the race and the competitors, so that is essentially the most troublesome Paralympic Games for me.”

Winning the lads’s center distance imaginative and prescient impaired, Vitaliy Lukyanenko gained his eighth Paralympic gold as Anatolii Kovalevskyi took silver and Dmytro Suiarko bronze. Compatriots Iaroslav Reshetynskyi and Oleksandr Kazik accomplished the dominant exhibiting as they completed fourth and fifth.